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Sunday, August 18, 2013

Weekend box office for August 16 - 18, 2013; Competition gets served by The Butler

Lee Daniels' The Butler cleaned up with a $25 million opening. Some have compared this to 2011's The Help which opened with $26 million, but less buzz makes The Butler unlikely to replicate that film's unusually lengthy box office success that ended with over $160 million. Kick-Ass 2, Jobs and Paranoia got their butts kicked, in comparison. KA2 opened in fourth with $13.5 million, about 31% lower than the original. Jobs was seventh with $6.7 million. Paranoia's thirteenth-place, $3.5 million opening is one of the worst major release debuts for everyone involved. Four new major releases did little harm to We're the Millers, which took second and dropped only 32.7%. Elysium took third but is falling fairly rapidly. Blue Jasmine will more than double its theater count next week, but will it continue its indie success? See how other movies performed here.